Glen
Cavaliero was born in 1927 and educated at Tonbridge School and Magdalen
College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. He was ordained to the
Anglican priesthood in 1953. In 1965 he moved to Cambridge where he read
for a degree in English, obtaining his doctorate in 1972. He now lives
and teaches there as a member of the Faculty of English and a Fellow
Commoner of St Catharine's College.

A former
adviser to the Cambridge Poetry Festival, Glen Cavaliero is the author
of six collections of poems. He has also published critical studies of
John Cowper Powys (1973), E. M. Forster (1979) and Charles Williams
(1983) in addition to The Rural Tradition in the English
Novel 1900-1939 (1977),
The
Supernatural and English Fiction (1995), and The Alchemy of Laughter (2000).

A Fellow
of the Royal Society of Literature, he has contributed to numerous
journals and periodicals, including The Cambridge Review, Encounter, The New Yorker, PN Review, Stand, Poetry Salzburg Review and The Times Literary
Supplement.